Comparison

Parent Admin vs First Numbers ATF

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Parent Admin

Facilitates seamless communication between parents and nurseries for preschool children. Parents can manage bookings, update child details, and view financial information. Nurseries can send important updates and newsletters.

Highlights
  • Direct parent-nursery messaging
  • Booking pattern management
  • Child registration detail updates
  • Invoice and payment tracking
  • Emergency closure notifications
  • Funding eligibility updates
Features
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Making life easier for nursery and pre-school parents to communicate with their nursery. Parents can send notifications directly to the nursery requesting any booking pattern changes, extra sessions, changes to emergency contact details, new allergy requirements, etc. The Nursery can also send notifications to parents keeping them up to date with emergency closures, newsletters, etc. This app allows parents to keep their children’s registration form details up-to-date including collection passwords, emergency contacts, permissions, consents and much more. We also allow parents to view all their invoices to date and see all payments made to their children’s account. This also reduces any confusion of how much is outstanding on their account. Booking patterns clearly displayed for all current and future sessions enabling the parent to see exactly when their children are scheduled to be attending the nursery. Funding (HMRC) eligibility codes can be kept up to date to ensure the parents don’t miss out on any funding claims. This app is designed to give parents access to parent admin on the go on any device, anytime, anywhere.

About

First Numbers ATF

Features
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FIRST NUMBERS While rote learning is important when learning maths, it can sometimes cause confusion when seeing the written number, particularly when the numbers are out of sequence. This app aids number recognition and compliments early maths. It is a simple, easy to use, no frills app. It has been developed for convenience, aimed at casual use as well as for the classroom. However, unlike many early learning aids, this app is “age appropriate”, making it accessible to all and useful for those with additional learning needs. The app can be re-visited frequently for short, quick revisions and the counter can be used for setting personal goals. This app is a perfect assessment tool for teachers, parents and students. USING THE APP 1. Select the number of ‘First Numbers’ you wish to practise. 2. Click the ‘play’ symbol to advance through the numbers. 3. The objective is to speed up random number recognition. 4. The counter can be used to create goals. Learning note: Advance to the next level at your leisure but be prepared to go back to re-enforce where necessary. PRACTISE MAKES PERFECT When teaching maths as with reading, it may be that we do not put enough emphasis on “DATA OVERLOAD”. A pupil can struggle to recognise the number even though you are sure they know it, purely because there is too much data in front of them. As the student’s number recognition develops, so their potential to develop computational skills will increase. With practise, improvement in speed of neurological processing, anxiety in coping with more data per page is reduced, giving the student more confidence to progress. As stated earlier, we have purposely randomised the numbers to avoid rote learning. However, due to this randomisation, numbers will occasionally appear consecutively, particularly in early stages. This is a progressive learning tool, therefore the first 10 numbers will appear within the first 20 numbers and so on. ACTIVE THERAPY FOUNDATION Active Therapy Foundation is a UK charity with aims of promoting social inclusion, providing innovative and dedicated coaching therapy programmes, making "Active therapy" available to all, thus developing skills and enabling individuals to participate more fully in society. Active therapy explores ways of developing higher achievement levels for people with disabilities. It pushes the boundaries of “accept and adapt” and has a direct approach to systematic problem solving. The programme is practically based, working on the principle of self-achievement. It is designed to explore ways of giving a feeling of achievement at ALL levels of ability, breaking down the skills sufficiently so that EVERYONE CAN SUCCEED.

Screenshots

Parent Admin4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Parent Admin at Free against First Numbers ATF's $1.99. Parent Admin also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs every 20 months). First Numbers ATF's advantage is iOS requirement (14.4 vs 18.0). On ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Parent Admin is free to download; First Numbers ATF costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Parent Admin ships an update every 10 days, First Numbers ATF every 20 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 5 level
Parent Admin versus First Numbers ATF: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterParent AdminFirst Numbers ATF
PriceFree — better$1.99
Positive reviews14.3% of reviews—
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterEvery 20 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPad
Requires iOS18.014.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size47 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNursery In a Box LtdActive Therapy Development Limited

In-app purchases

None

Parent Admin

No in-app purchases

None

First Numbers ATF

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Parent Admin free?
Parent Admin is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is First Numbers ATF free?
First Numbers ATF costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Parent Admin or First Numbers ATF have ads?
Neither Parent Admin nor First Numbers ATF shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Parent Admin or First Numbers ATF?
Parent Admin ships an update every 10 days, and First Numbers ATF every 20 months. Most recently, Parent Admin was updated on November 6, 2026 and First Numbers ATF on November 3, 2026.

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